Monthly Archive for February, 2013

: February, 2013

There was a long piece this weekend in the New York Times magazine on the science and marketing of creating junk food, and the role it has played in fueling the rise of obesity in America. The opening anecdote, alone, is incredible. Here’s the central thesis of the long story, authored by Michael Moss: The …

Word of warning — the following is quite gross. Now it’s really awful that a Canadian tourist, Elisa Lam, was found dead in a hotel water tank on Tuesday. Police still aren’t sure whether she was killed or died in a bizarre accident as an autopsy proved inconclusive. Police aren’t sure how long she was …

Americans blame a lot of things for gaining weight. We sit too much. We don’t exercise. We drive more and walk less. But the root of the cause is that we simply eat too much. A recent analysis by Cornell’s Brian Wansink looked at how the caloric content of a “serving” in the classic Joy …

We’ve recently discussed declining sperm counts among French men — a drop by one-third in less than two decades according to one report. It’s not clear why the sperm counts are falling in France. But now comes a new study that suggests a strong correlation between a lack of exercise and excess television watching and …